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Python Geospatial Data and Mapping: Parts 1-2
October 3, 2023
Geospatial data are an important component of data visualization and analysis in the social sciences, humanities, and elsewhere. The Python programming language is a great platform for exploring these data and integrating them into your research.Read more about Python Geospatial Data and Mapping: Parts 1-2
Finding Health Statistics and Data
October 3, 2023
Participants in this workshop will learn about some of the issues surrounding the collection of health statistics, and will also learn about authoritative sources of health statistics and data. We will look at tools that let you create custom tables of vital statistics (birth, death, etc.), disease...Read more about Finding Health Statistics and Data
R Data Visualization
October 4, 2023
This workshop will provide an introduction to graphics in R with ggplot2. Participants will learn how to construct, customize, and export a variety of plot types in order to visualize relationships in data. We will also explore the basic grammar of graphics, including the aesthetics and geometry...Read more about R Data Visualization
Qualtrics Fundamentals
October 5, 2023
Qualtrics is a powerful online tool available to Berkeley community members that can be used for a range of data collection activities. Primarily, Qualtrics is designed to make web surveys easy to write, test, and implement, but the software can be used for data entry, training, quality control,...Read more about Qualtrics Fundamentals
Institutional Review Board (IRB) Fundamentals
October 9, 2023
Are you starting a research project at UC Berkeley that involves human subjects? If so, one of the first steps you will need to take is getting IRB approval.Read more about Institutional Review Board (IRB) Fundamentals
Python Intermediate: Parts 1-3
October 9, 2023
This three-part interactive workshop series teaches you intermediate programming Python for people with previous programming experience equivalent to our Python Fundamentals workshop. By the end of the series, you will be able to apply your knowledge of basic principles of programming and data...Read more about Python Intermediate: Parts 1-3
R Machine Learning with tidymodels: Parts 1-2
October 9, 2023
Machine learning often evokes images of Skynet, self-driving cars, and computerized homes. However, these ideas are less science fiction as they are tangible phenomena that are predicated on description, classification, prediction, and pattern recognition in data. During this two part workshop, we...Read more about R Machine Learning with tidymodels: Parts 1-2
Python Data Wrangling and Manipulation with Pandas
October 10, 2023
Pandas is a Python package that provides fast, flexible, and expressive data structures designed to make working with 'relational' or 'labeled' data both easy and intuitive. It enables doing practical, real world data analysis in Python. In this workshop, we'll work with example data and go through...Read more about Python Data Wrangling and Manipulation with Pandas
Stata Fundamentals: Parts 1-3
October 10, 2023
This workshop is a three-part introductory series that will teach you Stata from scratch with clear introductions, concise examples, and support documents. You will learn how to download and install the Stata software, understand data and basic manipulations, import and subset data, explore and...Read more about Stata Fundamentals: Parts 1-3
QDA Campus License Focus Group
October 12, 2023
Calling All Qualitative & Mixed-Methods Researchers at UC Berkeley! Join the conversation on Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) Campus Software License Options! Are you a researcher (undergraduate, graduate, or faculty/staff) at UC Berkeley who employs qualitative data, text analysis, or mixed-...Read more about QDA Campus License Focus Group
Excel Data Analysis: Introduction
October 16, 2023
This is a three-hour introductory workshop that will provide an overview of Excel, with no prior experience assumed. Attendees will learn how to use functions for handling data and making calculations, how to build charts and pivot tables, and more.Read more about Excel Data Analysis: Introduction
Python Text Analysis: Topic Modeling
October 16, 2023
In this part, we study unsupervised learning of text data. This is a stand alone work that builds from the two-part text analysis series.Read more about Python Text Analysis: Topic Modeling
Excel Data Analysis: Charts, Pivot Tables, and VLOOKUP
October 18, 2023
This three-hour workshop will cover charts in more detail, review pivot tables, and the widely-used VLOOKUP function. We recommend first taking the introductory workshop Excel Data Analysis: Introduction.Read more about Excel Data Analysis: Charts, Pivot Tables, and VLOOKUP
R Fundamentals: Parts 1-4
October 24, 2023
This workshop is a four-part introductory series that will teach you R from scratch with clear introductions, concise examples, and support documents. You will learn how to download and install the open-sourced R Studio software, understand data and basic manipulations, import and subset data,...Read more about R Fundamentals: Parts 1-4
Bash + Git: Introduction
October 24, 2023
This workshop will start by introducing you to navigating your computer’s file system and basic Bash commands to remove the fear of working with the command line and to give you the confidence to use it to increase your productivity. And then working with Git, a powerful tool for keeping track of...Read more about Bash + Git: Introduction
Python Fundamentals: Parts 1-3
October 24, 2023
This three-part interactive workshop series is your complete introduction to programming Python for people with little or no previous programming experience. By the end of the series, you will be able to apply your knowledge of basic principles of programming and data manipulation to a real-world...Read more about Python Fundamentals: Parts 1-3
Python Text Analysis: Word Embeddings
October 25, 2023
How can we use neural networks to create meaningful representations of words? The bag-of-words is limited in its ability to characterize text, because it does not utilize word context.Read more about Python Text Analysis: Word Embeddings
Python Web APIs
October 26, 2023
In this workshop, we cover how to extract data from the web with APIs using Python. APIs are often official services offered by companies and other entities, which allow you to directly query their servers in order to retrieve their data. Platforms like The New York Times, Twitter and Reddit offer...Read more about Python Web APIs
Python Web Scraping
November 2, 2023
In this workshop, we cover how to scrape data from the web using Python. Web scraping involves downloading a webpage's source code and sifting through the material to extract desired data.Read more about Python Web Scraping
R Geospatial Fundamentals: Vector Data, Parts 1-2
November 7, 2023
Geospatial data are an important component of data visualization and analysis in the social sciences, humanities, and elsewhere. The R programming language is a great platform for exploring these data and integrating them into your research. This workshop focuses on fundamental operations for...Read more about R Geospatial Fundamentals: Vector Data, Parts 1-2
Python Machine Learning Fundamentals: Parts 1-2
November 7, 2023
This workshop introduces students to scikit-learn, the popular machine learning library in Python, as well as the auto-ML library built on top of scikit-learn, TPOT. The focus will be on scikit-learn syntax and available tools to apply machine learning algorithms to datasets. No theory instruction...Read more about Python Machine Learning Fundamentals: Parts 1-2
R Data Wrangling and Manipulation: Parts 1-2
November 7, 2023
It is said that 80% of data analysis is spent on the process of cleaning and preparing the data for exploration, visualization, and analysis. This R workshop will introduce the dplyr and tidyr packages to make data wrangling and manipulation easier. Participants will learn how to use these packages...Read more about R Data Wrangling and Manipulation: Parts 1-2
R Data Visualization
November 20, 2023
This workshop will provide an introduction to graphics in R with ggplot2. Participants will learn how to construct, customize, and export a variety of plot types in order to visualize relationships in data. We will also explore the basic grammar of graphics, including the aesthetics and geometry...Read more about R Data Visualization
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December 18, 2023
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